bell hooks
bell hooks
American author, feminist, and social activist whose real name is Gloria Jean Watkins. She wrote "Ain’t I a Woman?: Black Women and Feminism".
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth25 September 1952
CityHopkinsville, KY
CountryUnited States of America
responsibility thinking accountability
To begin by always thinking of love as an action rather than a feeling is one way in which anyone using the word in this manner automatically assumes accountability and responsibility.
white tools shame
Shaming is one of the deepest tools of imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy because shame produces trauma and trauma often produces paralysis.
differences beloved-community justice
If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice, have recognition for difference without attaching difference to privilege.
struggle thinking race
If I were really asked to define myself, I wouldn’t start with race; I wouldn’t start with blackness; I wouldn’t start with gender; I wouldn’t start with feminism. I would start with stripping down to what fundamentally informs my life, which is that I’m a seeker on the path. I think of feminism, and I think of anti-racist struggles as part of it. But where I stand spiritually is, steadfastly, on a path about love.
moving moments
The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom...
beloved-community justice want
If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
people focus political
It is important and vital is to keep that education for critical consciousness around intersectionalities, so that people are able to not focus on one thing and blame one group, but be able to look holistically at the way intersectionality informs all of us: whiteness, gender, sexual preferences, etc. Only then can we have a realistic handle on the political and cultural world we live within.
life meaningful art
Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.
believe important
What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
sisterhood race class
As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.
justice no-love
Without justice there can be no love.
girl children order
The wounded child inside many females is a girl who was taught from early childhood on that she must become something other than herself, deny her true feelings, in order to attract and please others.
memories heart dark
In an ideal world we would all learn in childhood to love ourselves. We would grow, being secure in our worth and value, spreading love wherever we went, letting our light shine. If we did not learn self-love in our youth, there is still hope. The light of love is always in us, no matter how cold the flame. It is always present, waiting for the spark to ignite, waiting for the heart to awaken and call us back to the first memory of being the life force inside a dark place waiting to be born - waiting to see the light.
heart world demand
The world demands that you work for it, make families, provide, take no time to listen to your own heart beating.